Do you carry a handgun in and around the house?

[drobs]

Stealing this topic from Glock Talk. Do you carry a handgun in and around the house. I do. I'm semi-retired and it's easier just to put on a holstered handgun 1st thing in the morning and then take it off when I go to bed. I'm in and out of the house all throughout the day. I also have a rifle and shotgun available in the house. The rest of my guns are in a gun safe. Occasionally there is a rifle in one of my vehicles.

 

[Speedo66]

While I understand a home invasion is a remote possibility, I don’t feel compelled to wear a gun in my home. Extremely low crime rate where I reside.

I only carry in the shower, special waterproof shower holster. Came from watching “Psycho“ too many times as a kid.

Just kidding.

 

[jar]

I don't worry too much about a home invasion, in fact I can't say I worry at all about a home invasion, but wearing a handgun is simply part of my normal dress and while I often forget to take my cell phone with me when I go out I almost never leave home without my handgun. It's simply something I got used to back in the late 1960s and so seems as natural as wearing pants.

 

[Blue Jays]

Perhaps.

 

[TarDevil]

Between my cameras and an extremely vigilant guard dog, the effort of getting to my door undetected would far exceed the rewards... unless someone just hates me that much.

 

[mm93]

I never have to go very far to get to a handgun, rifle or shotgun. So no reason to carry when I'm at home.

 

[bangswitch]

I didn't answer the poll. Break into my house while I'm home and find out.

 

[Great Scot]

I always keep a NAA .22lr in my pocket at home. I figure, why not. Fits in any pocket, and is so light, you forget it’s there. If someone were to break in, the mini would let me get to something more formidable.

 

[.308 Norma]

I only carry in the shower, special waterproof shower holster. Came from watching “Psycho“ too many times as a kid.

 

[Lo-Profile]

I don't carry one at home, outside usually. There is always one within close proximity

 

[MacAR]

Nope. I live in the country; we have 3 dogs and a few "tactical" cats (no attack parakeet... do chickens count?) that pretty well dissuade any type of "varmint" that might want to stop by. They announce the presence of pretty much everything, so I have plenty of time to lay my paws on something to "defend the Homefront". Also have a few guns scattered around the house, mostly shotguns and rimfire rifles for dispatching the critters that might steal from my garden or rob the hen house. Used to carry a handgun when out on the farm, but found that I can either work or carry a handgun; the pistols stay in the house or in the truck depending on the day.

Mac

 

[CDW4ME]

I voted yes despite living in a "good area" where carrying at home is "unnecessary".
This thread should be good.

 

[Ks5shooter]

92 acre dressage horse farm here.Lotsa of expensive horses(our own and clients as well) not to mention tack that is very expensive.I carry all the time here and being in and out the house ,never take it off.At night relaxing its off the hip and in reach.In bed its on the nightstand next to me.Wife does the same.Although a gated farm people do tresspass and has needed to be dealt with.Not for a long time thankfully.One woman and her kids hopped the fence to feed the horses.When asked why she was on our property she replied"I didnt know whos property it is".Well you know its not yours I replied and escorted them off.
As a side note,do not feed horses you do not have permission to.Horses have diffrerent health issues and feed restrictions as do humans and the wrong thing can really harm a horse.

 

[Tallball]

No. And I live in a sketchy area.

My very large dog is either on the front porch (in front of the only current entrance) or in the house with me.

He's way more alert than I am. If someone comes anywhere near the house, I have more than enough time to reach a firearm.

Most of the neighbors have dogs, too. The homeless guys and young hoodlum guys have stopped walking down this block at night because there's way too much barking.

 

[entropy]

At least one.

 

[bigpower491]

I always have at least my M&P Compact on me. I live out in the sticks, and have 85# of German Shepherd on patrol, but we have enough meth heads and jerkingtons around here, not to mention 5 commercial pot grows within a mile. I have a sign at the end of my driveway the reads: WARNING. If you can read this you are in range. So far, I haven't had a problem, but I have had people come up the drive(it's long and you can't see my house from the road) thinking it was a shortcut to somewhere. Then they see the dude with the six gun on his hip and realize real quick that it' could be a shortcut to hell if they don't turn around......

 

[TomJ]

I now live in a rural part of Wisconsin with a low violent crime rate, so the odds of a home invasion here are immeasurably small. They're not zero, however, and it costs me nothing to carry any time I'm awake and not in a prohibited area, including at home.

 

[doubleh]

A home invasion is almost unheard of around here but never say never. There is always that very slim chance it could happen. I am long retired and barely able to get around with a walker at this time so I do not wear a gun around the the house as clothes are enough of a burden. I do have a gun right by my hand when in my recliner and it's no problem to drop it into the pocket of my walker if needed. I'm hoping to have my motion problem solved by summer but I will still use the system I am now using with the only difference being the gun will be stuck in my hip pocket when answering the door on the rare times I have to. Upon restored mobility I will place a gun in my garage/shop. The illegals are showing up here finally and I am not taking any chances. My wife's farmer cousin that lives a few miles northwest of us is already packing.

 

[JeffG]

We live in a suburban cul-de-sac. Half a mile from here, the neighborhoods take a shabbier turn. Mental health center 1/2 mile away, walk in-walk out situation. Runaways and homeless strays are somewhat common. There was a home invasion up the block, unknown, unsolved with an unlocked door.
People drive down to the cul-de-sac all hours of the day and night, and some take an uncomfortable long time to look things over, before they drive away. Some are looking for a place to fire up the one-hitter, some are looking for a romantic parking spot. Plus we have a once a month large garbage day, and the junkers all come around with their trucks to take old mattresses, shop vacs, furniture and stuff. Illegals are showing up in the lawncare and retail establishments.
Even with the camera system, deliveries and canvassers show up at the front door rather suddenly. So yes, I do the pants on-gun on with other ready guns in the house.

 

[trackskippy]

Pants on, guns on. And at night, by the bed in my pants "fireman" style.

You can have weapons all over the house, but if you don't have them on your person, you don't have them, no matter how close you "think" they are.

It doesn't matter where you live, the one constant that's always trouble, is "people".

 

[conan32120]

Only time I wear a gun in the house is when I make a new holster and I'm trying to break it in

 

[dobedo]

Only outside you just never know.

 

[Lo-Profile]

Most of the neighbors have dogs, too. The homeless guys and young hoodlum guys have stopped walking down this block at night because there's way too much barking.

Same as my dog. Old people and little kids can walk by all day long, nary a peep out of her. High School kids or under 30's walk by, she's making noise.

 

[Boattale]

I feel no need to carry a handgun inside my house. That said, options abound.

 

[Ks5shooter]

Pants on, guns on. And at night, by the bed in my pants "fireman" style.

You can have weapons all over the house, but if you don't have them on your person, you don't have them, no matter how close you "think" they are.

It doesn't matter where you live, the one constant that's always trouble, is "people".

Yep thieves and home invaders do not stay in the hood. There's nothing left there for them. They have legs and will travel.